Prototype Machinist Moderate

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None Purpose:

To build and machine Prototype components to the specifications required, while working in close collaboration with the Engineering Department and Production Departments. Assist in training for Entry level Prototype Personnel.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensure a safe work environment for self and others. Follows all safety rules and regulations. Demonstrate commitment to safety program.
• Studies blueprints to determine machining needs, plans the tooling layout, and understands best plan for machining.
• Studies and has a good understanding of preliminary blueprints and specifications. While recognizing manufacturing problems and conferring with Engineering and Operational personnel to act on these problems early on in new designs.
• Setting manufacturing processes for prototype, while also determining if changes need to be made for future production.

Understands cutting forces and the effect on parts and fixturing. Demonstrates this in the processing of parts with proper tool selection, tool path, tool sequencing, and fixture design to establish an effective and efficient process while maintaining close dimensional tolerances.

• Works as a team player to identify manufacturing problems, cost reduction ideas, and solutions
• Proficient at operating and set up/programming the following equipment: lathes and vertical mills, understanding of cutting compensation, work coordinate system, to include some 4th axis machining.
• Proficient at operating the tool and cutter grinder.
• Able to design and fabricate moderate level hydraulic and pneumatic fixtures for prototype and production processes.
• Understands the effect of cutting forces on the part and fixture, and demonstrates this in the fixture design
• Sets up broaching machine for broaching spline with little or no trouble at all, at advanced level
• Tests assembled mechanisms for fit, function and able to find the source of any problems found.
• Demonstrates coaching abilities in the workplace
• Understands programs and what the program is doing to part
• Maintains a clean and organized work area and safe shop environment
• Performs preventive maintenance to shop equipment
• Demonstrate commitment to the TEAM Industries Quality Management system and Objectives.
• Promote a positive atmosphere. Actively support activities that promote the welfare and morale of TEAM employees.
• Able to work efficiently in a pressured and always changing environment.
• Strive to maintain healthy relationships with all.
• Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed or assigned.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Must posses knowledge of tolerancing, including GD&T, to have ability to explain to co-workers, operators, or others.
• Must be proficient in GIBBS Cam to layout programming points at a moderate level.
• Thorough knowledge of heat treating process.
• Must posses advanced knowledge of proper cutting tool selection and cutting speeds and feeds.
• Must posses working knowledge of geometry and trigonometry relationships and principles.
• Must have ability to train Entry Level Prototype Machinists in the basics to include operation.

of:

surface grinder, saws, Sunnen hone, programing of tool room lathes, tool room mills, CNC hob, and G code lathes and mills, involute inspection equipment, shaper machine, cylindrical grinder, broaching machine, roll form machine.

• Work with Machining ME's to identify programing issues, work holding and tool selections.
• Possess working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products.